[treeman79]

Platforms are starting to form practical monopolies. Google controls searching for content. If they don’t like the topic you will never be found. They routinely suppress anything on the right.

Hosting that can handle load and hackers for normal people is extremely difficult.

[codeivore]

i have a rack of servers right next to me, i'm not a pro sysadmin

just because your average developer today lives and breathes AWS and PaaS doesn't mean it's impossible to use the bare metal

[shadowgovt]

> If they don’t like the topic you will never be found

That's a hell of a diss for everyone pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into Bing and DDG.